Romans 6:21

The old sinful life yielded fruit that now brings shame, and its end is death. Sin's harvest is destruction.

Cross-references · 40

• Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Rom 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Prov 14:12There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
• Jer 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
• Prov 16:25There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
• Rom 8:13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Heb 6:8but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
• Jer 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
• 1 Jn 2:28Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
• Rom 8:6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
• Dan 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• 1 Kgs 2:26To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
• Dan 9:7–8Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
• Jas 5:20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
• Isa 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
• Ezra 9:6and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
• 2 Sam 12:5–7David’s anger burned hot against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!
• Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
• Jer 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead. You refused to be ashamed.
• Prov 5:10–13lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.
• Prov 9:17–18“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”
• 2 Cor 7:11For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
• Ezek 43:11If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.
• Job 40:4“Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
• Job 42:6Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
• Jer 12:13They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. You shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.”
• Ezek 36:31–32Then you shall remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• 1 Pet 4:17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
• Ezek 16:61–63Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
• Ps 73:17Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
• Deut 21:22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
• Jas 1:15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
• Jer 31:19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
• Deut 17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
• Prov 1:31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
• Luke 15:17–21But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
• Phil 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
• Rev 16:6For they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”

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